Andrew Ross

Research Professor

aross@jhu.edu
Mergenthaler 256
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Research Interests: Global politics, IR theory, emotions and politics, politics of humanitarianism

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

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I am a broadly trained scholar of international relations, international law, and political theory. From 2008 to June 2023, I taught in the Department of Political Science at Ohio University. Prior to that, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. I teach courses in global media politics, international law, and international human rights, as well as introductory courses in international relations and global politics.

Much of my research addresses the vexing role of emotions in international and global politics. I have published work in the areas of digital diplomacy, media culture in global politics, critical humanitarianism, the cultural politics of genocide, US foreign policy, and realist and constructivist IR theory. My first book, Mixed Emotions: Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict, is available from the University of Chicago Press. My current book project, Everyday Media and Popular Global Politics, examines the ethics and politics of the many everyday practices of humanitarianism, diplomacy, and citizen journalism now sustained by digital media.

Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations, co-edited with Simon Koschut, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2025.

“Mediated Humanitarian Affect,” in Affective Transformations: Politics, Algorithms, Media, eds. Bernd Bösel and Serjoscha Weimer, 77–92. Lüneberg: Meson Press, 2020.

“Ethics and Emotion in International Relations,” In The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations, ed. Birgit Schippers, 91–103. New York: Routledge, 2020.

"The Power of Viral Expression in World Politics." In: The Power of Emotions in World Politics, ed. Simon Koschut. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2020.

“Re-thinking Affective Experience and Popular Emotion: World War I and the Construction of Group Emotion in International Relations.” [Co-authored with Todd H. Hall] Political Psychology 40, no. 6 (2019): 1357-1372.

“Emotion and Experience in International Relations.” In: Parsing the Passions: Methodology and the Study of Emotion in World Politics, ed. Eric Van Rythoven and Mira Sucharov. New York: Routledge, 2019.

“Representation and Mediation in World Politics.” Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 47, no. 2 (2019): 263-272.

“Beyond Empathy and Compassion: Genocide and The Emotional Complexities of Humanitarian Politics.” In: Emotions and Mass Atrocity: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives, eds. Thomas Brudholm and Johannes Lang, 185–208. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

“Exceptionalism, Counterterrorism, and the Emotional Politics of Human Rights.” In: Emotions in International Politics: Beyond Mainstream International Relations, eds. Yohann Ariffin, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Vesselin Popovski, 315–40. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

“Affective Politics after 9/11.” [co-authored with Todd H. Hall] International Organization 69, no. 4 (2015): 847–79.

Mixed Emotions: Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

“Realism, Emotion, and Dynamic Allegiances in Global Politics.” International Theory 5, no. 2 (2013): 273–99.

“Why They Don’t Hate Us: Emotion, Agency, and the Politics of ‘Anti-Americanism’.” Millennium: Journal of International Studies 39, no. 1 (2010): 109–25.

“Coming in from the Cold: Constructivism and Emotions.” European Journal of International Relations 12, no. 2 (2006): 197–222.

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